Dhaka, July 31 -- The recent accusations by B'Tselem and Physicians for Human Rights - Israel mark a watershed moment in the global reckoning over Israel's relentless assault on Gaza. For two of Israel's most respected human rights organisations to charge their own government with genocide underscores the sheer scale of the humanitarian catastrophe and the moral collapse of Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's leadership.
The findings in the report "Our Genocide" are damning and unequivocal. This newspaper on Wednesday reported that tens of thousands of Palestinians have been killed, entire neighbourhoods reduced to rubble, and nearly all of Gaza's two million residents displaced. Severe restrictions on food, medicine, and essential aid hav...